 He was President of the Horsham Conservative Association from 1964 to 1970.Having been a prodigious correspondent to various newspapers, he found he had more time to contribute.Gough was issued with a writ for libel in November 1967 by Robert Maxwell, then Labour MP for Buckingham, over a letter which Gough had written to the "Illustrated London News" inviting the editor of that newspaper to say whether Maxwell had been awarded the Military Cross.